Eva Iacono was born and raised on Long Island and has been living on the South Fork for the last 22 years. She has an advanced degree in Education in TESOL and is certified in New York State as an ESL and Spanish instructor. She was an English language teacher for almost three decades, six years of which she taught English in Barcelona, Spain. Most recently, she taught English as a Second Language and Spanish Language Arts in the East Hampton School District. Apart from teaching languages, making art has been essential and constant for her throughout her life. Most of her pieces delve into portrait and landscape photography as well as portrait drawing using oil pastels and mixed media. She has participated in many juried, open and invitational group shows throughout the East End and New York State and she had a one woman show at the Ammerman Library of Suffolk County Community College.